Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.

...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.

Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.

Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.

...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.

We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.

The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

Good relationships depend upon recognizing that we are the source of our problems.

Those ties...those ties are forever, and I never wanted to be connected to any other person so permanently. Forever was always meant for you and me, Spence.

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

The name ‘Girls Generation’ in itself contains dreams. And that dream of making the world a Girls Generation will never change.